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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Financial participation and acceptance of the German energy transition
No full textFor the success of the German energy transition, it is important that citizens hold a positive attitude towards it on a general level (general acceptance). Furthermore, citizens must be willing to accept associated personal effects, such as renewable energy plants in their neighbourhoods (passive acceptance), and to actively contribute to the energy transition, for example through energy-saving behaviour (active acceptance). In this context, financial participation of citizens is often discussed as a potential measure to increase acceptance. Evidence in the scientific literature suggests that financial participation of local residents in renewable energy plants may contribute to acceptance of this plant. This refers to identical participation (i.e. in what do citizens participate) and acceptance objects (i.e. what do citizens accept). However, there is a lack of research on whether a person's investment in renewable energy impacts their acceptance of different aspects of the energy transition, referring to different participation and acceptance objects. This thesis aims to contribute to this literature gap, by investigating whether citizens who financially participate in the energy transition tend to have higher levels of general, passive, and active acceptance than people who do not financially participate. The analysis is based on a quantitative online survey in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The results of the group comparison, utilizing the Mann-Whitney U test, suggest that investment in renewable energy is positively related to general acceptance and active acceptance in the form of volunteering for an initiative that supports the energy transition. However, no evidence was found that financial participation is related to higher levels of passive acceptance or active acceptance in the form of energy saving behaviour
Overview of heating and cooling Perceptions, markets and regulatory frameworks for decarbonisation. Deliverable 4, European end user costs for providing heating and cooling with heat pumps and district heating (Task 4)
No full textThis report was created within the project "Overview of Heating and Cooling: Perceptions, Markets and Regulatory Frameworks for Decarbonisation." The focus of this report is on the evaluation of the final cost for owning and operating district heating (DH) connections and heat pumps (HPs) for preparing space heating and space cooling as well as domestic hot water (DHW) from an end user’s perspective. This analysis was conducted for different typical residential consumers in the individual Member States of EU27, UK, Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland
Overview of heating and cooling. Perceptions, markets and regulatory frameworks for decarbonisation. Deliverable 3 - Overview of monetary and non-monetary incentives for the uptake of district heating and cooling and heat pumps
No full textThis Report covers Subtasks 3.1 to 3.4 of the project ‘Overview of Heating and Cooling: Perceptions, Markets and Regulatory Frameworks for Decarbonisation’ funded by the European Commission (EC). The objective of Task 3 is to provide an overview of incentives for the uptake of District Heating and Cooling / District Heating (DHC/DH) and Heat Pumps (HP), which can make a significant contribution towards energy system flexibility and decarbonisation. The geographic scope of the analysis is the for-mer EU28 members (EU27 + UK), Norway, Switzerland and Iceland
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
EnTEC - Supply chain risks in the EU’s clean energy technologies
No full textThis study focuses on the clean energy technologies (CET) defined as strategic in the proposed Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) and considers their strategic importance. The study looks at each technology chosen in the NZIA (and other less strategic but relevant technologies) and uses desk research and expert input to consider the strategic importance of each technology. This comparison is based on three key criteria reflected in the NZIA: the technology’s overall impact on the EU’s climate goals, the need for building manufacturing capacity for the technology, and the various vulnerabilities that exist for the technology, in terms of competitiveness of EU production, market concentration, security of supply risks, and miscellaneous risk factors. The supply chains of various energy technologies have come under increased scrutiny in recent years. As strategic dependencies on energy from fossil fuels reduce, especially in response to geopolitical risks and threats, new dependencies take their place. In the context of rapid decarbonisation of the energy sector and other energy-intensive sectors, dependencies are beginning to appear to various clean energy technologies
EnTEC – Regulatory Sandboxes in the Energy Sector
No full textRegulatory sandboxes aim to support innovative solutions and promote regulatory learning, often by giving derogations from certain regulatory provisions to participants for a limited amount of time. Other forms of experimentation (regulatory or otherwise) exist, such as regulatory pilot projects, pilot regulations, living labs and test beds. Several Member States have already adopted or are considering adopting frameworks for regulatory experimentation in the energy sector, including regulatory sandboxes. A few reports have compared existing regulatory sandboxes in the EU and globally. However, there is limited information on the concrete implementation of these sandboxes, barriers for implementation and best practices, and the concrete impacts. A recent notable exception is the report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), which represents the first EU-wide overview of regulatory experimentation frameworks for the energy sector. The main objective of this report is to analyse existing regulatory sandbox schemes for the energy sector with a focus on the EU Member States regarding their purpose, regulatory/legal basis, format, implementation barriers and best practices, and impacts in fostering regulatory learning and new business cases. Our analysis indicates that regulatory sandboxes are useful policy tools to develop regulations and enable the creation of new products and services, even if not all examples have a clear positive impact and many projects awarded under regulatory sandboxes are still ongoing. However, regulatory sandboxes are warranted only in the case where a regulatory exemption is strictly necessary for the innovation to take place. In other cases, different instruments (such as the ones where regulators/authorities supervise and guide the innovative projects) may be more adequate while avoiding the risk of distorting the level-playing field
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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